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Shocking footage shows brazen thieves using a car as a battering ram to smash into a shopping centre and raid a phone shop.

CCTV footage shows ram-raiders ploughing through the doors of Wallsend Forum centre in a hatchback and parking in front of an O2 shop before swiping stock.

The raid in Newcastle-upon-Tyne is one of a string of recent similar crimes. The trend will heighten fears that there could be a new epidemic of ram-raids across Britain.

The country was gripped by a wave of smash-and-grabs in the 1980s and early 1990s, with cars or vans commonly used to batter their way into cash machines or jewellery stores. 

CCTV footage shows a car ploughing through the doors of Wallsend Forum centre in North Tyneside 

Northumbria Police yesterday released footage of the latest incident, saying said it ‘wouldn’t look out of place in The Italian Job’.

Rather than using red, white and blue Minis like Michael Caine’s mob in the 1969 caper, the criminals used a small black car as a battering ram. 

Footage shows them using the vehicle to smash through doors at the Forum Shopping Centre in Wallsend at 4am, before driving through the mall and parking outside an O2 shop.

Two figures exit the black hatchback and head for the store, with one hooded thief swiping stock from the shop into his bag before the duo flee in their vehicle. They are yet to be caught following the incident on January 29.

Glass smashes as the doors are broken from the force of the car and footage shows the thieves driving through the empty shopping centre

Northumbria Police were called after an alarm was activated at around 4.10am on Tuesday 29 January.

They found the shop had been broken into and the thieves had ransacked the place of stock. 

PC David Hudson, from Northumbria Police, said: 'The significant damage to the shopping centre and the burglary has caused substantial financial loss for the businesses involved.

'An investigation has been launched, and I urge anyone with information or who may have been in the area at the time and witnessed something, to get in touch.'  

One of the hooded thieves grabs expensive phones and stuff them into a bag before fleeing back to their car

In December, a report revealed surging levels of similar crimes. Attempts to steal cash have almost doubled from 400 in 2014 to 723 last year according to a report by ATM operator Cardtronics. 

It suggested nearly half of all attacks could be considered dangerous, with gas explosions among the techniques used to blast out ATMs.

There has been a wave of ram-raids across the UK in recent weeks. Last Saturday, CCTV caught thieves using a stolen Mitsubishi Shogun to batter down the front of a convenience store in the village of Bells Yew Green in East Sussex.

They used a vehicle to bash into the shop front before ripping out the cash box from an ATM and towing it away.

On Wednesday, three masked robbers attempted to ram-raid a One Stop store in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, using a white Ford Transit van.

Last week, a stolen JCB was used to ram-raid a business in the village of Pinxton, Derbyshire

When that failed, they rushed in to the store with crowbars, took what they could and smashed up the premises before getting away in a BMW.

Last week, a stolen JCB was used to ram-raid a business in the village of Pinxton, Derbyshire. The brazen thieves didn’t manage to get away with anything, but caused a huge amount of damage.

The term ram-raiding was coined in the 1980s when it became the ‘crime of choice’, forcing many shops to put up shutters or erect bollards.

It was a particular problem in north-east England. Former Detective Superintendent Steve Wade, from Northumbria Police, recalled: ‘In the mid 80s and early 90s the crime of choice was ram-raiding.

‘They used to steal high-powered performance cars like Cosworths and Golf GTIs and just ram the shutters of shops and clear as much stuff as they could.’ Raids finally subsided after a police crackdown.

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